Open Thread 9-9

I’m both inspired and a little pissed off about Bob Ferguson supporting an assault weapons ban. On the one hand, it’s well past time, and I hope his push for this adds to the call. I suppose it’s possible to get something passed depending on the makeup of the next legislature.

On the other hand, it’s a relatively small amount of the gun deaths. And we’re going to need a lot more wholesale change than nibbling around the edges.

Which would be grasping at straws. Among people who say they have 100% made up their mind, Clinton leads by 8%. 59% think Clinton will win regardless of their vote (the inevitability factor) and then there’s young people in general 54% to 29% among those under age 45 favor Clinton. Obama won the women’s vote by 12points over Romeny. That 53% is a 15 point gap for the Donald to somehow make up among the angry white dude vote. And blacks and Latinos, guffaw.

You’ll ride that statistic all the way to the White House? You don’t suppose that saying women should be allowed to serve freely might move that gap a little wider?

Seeing as how you want black males dead, I don’t see how it would matter to you who is killing black males, be it cops or other black males, just so long as black males are being killed. As for the occasional innocent black woman or child victim goes, aren’t they just collateral damage to you at worst, and further culling of the black herd at best?

@2, I think it’s pretty good news. The more we keep Cheeto Jesus close, the more the alt-Right, InfoWars, New ®epublican Party of misogynistic, white supremacist, conspiracy loons will be seen as the conservative “establishment” after he loses this election.

You assholes are going to obstruct and freak out any way you can regardless. The House Death Cult will grow, you’ll toss Ryan to the curb, convene another dozen or so multi-billion dollar show trials, and still threaten to shut down the government at least twice every year. That’s in your DNA now. Hillary Clinton could capture all 50 states and that would still happen just like clockwork. But any such overwhelming defeat of the Orange Bigot might serve as a temporary wake up call to all you delusional freaks. And you lunatics might find it useful to blame it all on Trump’s political incompetence and lack of organization, as opposed to the more obvious utter failure of ideas. Anything that might delay your inevitable dissolution is to be avoided if possible.

I’ve never suggested in any way, shape or form that Hillary is the candidate I’ve been waiting for. But she is the best candidate running and I will vote for her. The candidate I waited for, Bobby Kennedy, has been dead for nearly fifty years and Democrats have pretty much disappointed me ever since. But that’s no reason to vote Republican, as they have always been a huge disappointment, but never so much as recently when the alt-right and Trump KGB stooges took over the party. They have to be stopped.

Interesting how the local schizophreniac types never seem to respond with anything other than sputtering rage when people start pointing out that their candidate’s pet mouthpieces are openly calling for a Fascist dictatorship.

Vladimir Putin is a Fascist Dictator. He doesn’t even deny it. So I suppose that seeing to it that the Don is allowed his opportunity to be more like Putin means that you lunatics admire Putin’s methods and his total lack of Legislative oversight. He’s as much a dictator as Khrushchev was, and comes from the same background as Khrushchev did. That being the Military and intelligence services.

Donald Trump is a cigar-store Indian. All the GOP wants in a candidate is someone who can sign autographs and do what he’s told. Ronald Reagan was all that, and had no small measure of public relations experience. The real idea that Pence could be anywhere near a position of authority is what scares the shit out of me. A Seven-Mountains hardline Christian Dominionist, who has openly called for public execution of homosexuals and closing public schools and Universities.

If that’s what you Goopers really want, don’t expect people to go quietly.

One thing he’s always been good at is selling bullshit and calling it gasoline. The Conservatives want everything this country fought against in the Second World War. They really think the Don is their man. All they need is a sockmonkey type who’s too stupid and greedy to think about anything but himself while the real Nazis work behind the scenes.

Donald is the perfect schmuck. Get the guy elected, then impeach him for something that he’s really guilty of, or just take him out of the picture with something that they could plausibly blame Liberals for, and that would put Pence in the White House.

Pence is who the Nazis want. They’ll put up with the Don just long enough to get shit settled, then he’s done.

(Instead of facing another fraud trial) “A New York lawmaker killed himself Friday morning, just days before the Republican primary in his bid for re-election to the state Assembly.He was well-known in political circles throughout New York state, especially this year when he took a regional lead in campaigning for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.”

During an interview this February, he claimed that he did not know of any preservation orders when he scrubbed the emails. But during an interview in May — seemingly after the Justice Department granted him immunity — Combetta said he was aware of the order and had an “oh shit” moment and deleted the Clinton email archives from PRN’s server and used BleachBit to delete Clinton’s email files.

Gotta love this! Pass out some more popcorn Martha, the show is just in Act 2!

@25, Thats the best part. It doesn’t know! The fool is the one his nominee’s policy shops accuse of being “different”, “lazy” and having “bad genes”, small brains”, and “anti-social tendencies”. He’ll be among the first The Dear Leader puts up against the wall.

@11 We can’t afford to lose the Republican Party. Now that we’ve closed all the asylums, we need a Republican Party to put the crazy people in. You don’t want Boob and the raving loon running amok in the streets, do you? Oops, they already are.

@30, I think the GOP will stick around. It just won’t be the “conservative” party any longer. It scarcely is, even now. Whatever the fuck their “ideology” may be it sure the fuck isn’t conservative. Nobody has any idea whatsoever what Cheeto Jesus stands for other than his wall (which nobody thinks will be built) . He’s been more inconsistent on policy than any other political leader in US history. But he obviously is not conservative and so neither are those seeking to get him elected. They’ve abandoned ideology in favor of victimhood and false outrage.

The Attorney General’s support of some measure to get rid of automatic weapons is just feel good politics. He is still a politician and is supported by a number of politicians some who secretly may hope the legislature does nothing with any proposed legislation. As it is any legislation will do nothing about the tens of thousands of these weapons already owned by individuals in this state and the numerous 20,30 or 50 round clips. Repressive regimes like North Korea know if you leave the barn door open and after you shut it you go after the critters. Furthermore if the Attorney General truly though this type of weapon is so terrible he would tell all law enforcement agencies in Washington state to collect and destroy all such weapons in their departments. This he could do and does not. This would eliminate one source of the weapons, and it would mean the state will not use weapons that it does not allow its citizens to purchase and own. A return to civil policing.

@33 You really wouldn’t want a device. They require maintenance. If you get shotgun type device they are inherently dangerous and so unsafe the bombardier on the Enola Gay would not alloy the bomb to be fully together on takeoff and put the last parts into the bomb during the flight. That device and Little boy are large so it’s gong to be challenging to hide them. Most devices are of some side particularly when they are two or more tiered devices as hydrogen bombs are. While you may have heard of suitcase bombs and seen such devices on tv the size of briefcases the ones that do exist are at least the size of a footlocker. There are tactical sized devices for artillery, and the US Army wanted a portable two man device that was finally nixed when it was realized it was not possible for the soldiers to get out of the blast zone if it were used. There is also the small issue that if your wife is in the habit of using a Geiger counter (does the Apple I pad have a Geiger application?) then she’s going to find the device, and Homeland Security is supposed to have tools to find loose nukes. It could be amusing to see how long it takes them to come pay visit to look through your tech stuff to look for whatever is being picked up. Unfortunately they probably won’t handle this like they are coming by for High Tea or even Low Tea. More like bulls in a china shop.

@29 Few people are killed each year by assault rifles in the United States. Now places like Syria a lot of people are getting killed by assault weapons many used by the nations army to kill their own citizens. Also the deaths from Hiroshima and Nagasaki are estimated to be between 50,000 and 100,000. 100,00 is a larger number than all the gun and automobile deaths in the US last year or this year. Or are you inferring there are 50,000 deaths caused by automatic weapons in the US last year? This article shows if you are serious about gun violence http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09......html?_r=0 Then you have to go after bigger fish as less than 500 of the 11,000 deaths were from any kind of rifle. To make a difference you have to go after those little guns, like the kind you own RR. So you going to turn your gun in and be a good example?

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